Comments on: A burning cross and other memories of the Klan http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2013/02/04/stadiem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stadiem Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Thu, 23 May 2013 18:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Blythe http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2013/02/04/stadiem/comment-page-1/#comment-974237 John Blythe Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:40:56 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=21138#comment-974237 I thought I’d seen a photo in our collections of a sign similar to the one that Stadiem describes. I couldn’t find one with the exact wording, but here’s one that’s similar.

http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/dig_nccpa/id/5209

According to our records, the sign was (is?) near Smithfield. The photograph was recorded in or about June 1971. The two individuals in the image are listed on the back of the print as Richard D. Thompson and Lawrence S. Thompson. I’m wondering if it’s Lawrence Sidney Thompson, whom, according to our clipping files, was a Chapel Hill native, graduate of UNC and one time library director and classics professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. An obituary for Lawrence Sidney Thompson, who died in 1986, notes that he had a son named Richard Dickson Thompson.

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